Is Guerrero Soft Taco Flour Tortillas ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- Colour
- Flavouring
- Soya bean
- E322 Lecithins
- E450 Diphosphates
- E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids
- 29 ingredients
- 9 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed breads
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, shortening, margarine blend (interesterified soybean oil, soybean (ultra-processing marker), cottonseed oils (processing marker), mono- and diglycerides (ultra-processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), artificial flavor (ultra-processing marker), beta-carotene (color (ultra-processing marker)), vitamin a palmitate), contains 2% and less of (salt (processing marker)), baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate (ultra-processing marker), yeast, molasses (processing marker), fumaric acid, and calcium propionate, sorbic acid (to maintain freshness (processing marker))
Additives: E200 Sorbic acid , E297 Fumaric acid , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Enriched bleached flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, shortening and margarine blend (interesterified soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oils, mono - and diglycerides, soy lecithin, artificial flavor, beta-carotene [color], vitamin a palmitate), contains 2% or less of: salt, baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, yeast, molasses, fumaric acid, and calcium propionate and sorbic acid (to maintain freshness).
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
- E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Soya bean An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 2,390 breads
From least to most processed, this one ranks 2218th. 71% of the breads here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0048564071012, last edited 6 July 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.